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The title of “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians,” Radu Jude’s explosively eloquent and morally galvanizing sixth feature, is a quotation from the words of Ion Antonescu ...
Israel’s Yad Vashem Memorial Holocaust Center has issued a fierce statement strongly condemning “attempts to obscure or distort the historical role of Ion Antonescu and the Iron Guard during ...
Ion Antonescu, Romania’s prime minister in the early 1940s, sided with Adolf Hitler during the war. Between 280,000 and 380,000 Romanian Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
Romania’s former King Michael I, a onetime boy monarch who later engineered the ouster of pro-Nazi strongman Gen. Ion Antonescu during World War II, only to be forced at gunpoint to abdicate by ...
According to the Times’ story 125,000 Jews have been murdered since Gen. Ion Antonescu first assumed power in Sept. 1940; and another 150,000 Jews and non-Jews have been sent to concentration camps.
Just off the main thoroughfare here, hidden among endless blocks of massive Stalinist high-rise apartments, stands a bronze bust of Marshal Ion Antonescu, the Romanian fascist dictator who ...
Bucharest Deputy Mayor Aurelian Badulescu has said he intends to place a bust of Romanian dictator, war criminal and Nazi collaborator Marshal Ion Antonescu in a public place in the Romanian capital.
A few years after Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu shrugged off the slaughter of some 400,000 Jews and Roma by saying, "I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians," he was tried and executed.
"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians," declared Romanian authoritarian Ion Antonescu to his nation's Council of Ministers in 1941; he was arguing the case for exterminating Jews ...